03/31/2011
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BBC
Three Sri Lankan soldiers sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a Tamil woman in 1996 appeal against their sentences.
03/14/2011
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BBC
The Sri Lankan army opens a travel agency 'to help the general public buy air tickets' and foreign package tours.
03/08/2011
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Groundviews
The following article was published in the Uthayan newspaper on 5 March 2011. The translation to English is based on a Sinhala translation published in Vikalpa.
Not a single Sinhala newspaper to date has published a similar account, though many reported on the opening of the new Army Headquarters in Jaffna. Of the English media, only the Daily Mirror quotes a BBC report on the desecration of the graves. As well-known blogger Guruparan notes in a succinct tweet, “This is really sad. A local newspaper has to quote an international media to report on a local story.”
No other English media online or in print have covered this story. Readers on our Facebook page have expressed grave concern and outrage over this action by the Army. Sadly, this is not the first time the Army has desecrated LTTE graves. An interview with Prof. Michael Roberts conducted in December 2010 explores this issue in detail, and why it is so damning to reconciliation and a lasting peace in Sri Lanka. As Prof. Roberts notes in an essay dealing with this outrageous practice, “The absence of tuyilam illam, in other words, will serve as a focal point for enhanced embitterment towards the government.”
03/07/2011
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BBC
It has emerged that a new military headquarters in northern Sri Lanka has been built on the site of a Tamil Tiger graveyard earlier flattened by the army.
03/05/2011
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Uthayan
இலங்கை இராணுவத்தின் 51 ஆவது படைத் தலைமையகம் நேற்றுக் காலை கோப்பாய் மாவீரர் துயிலும் இல்லத்தில் திறந்து வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இராணுவத் தளபதி லெப்டினன்ட் ஜெனரல் ஜகத் ஜயசூரிய இதில் பிரதம விருந்தினராகக் கலந்துகொண்டு புதிய தலைமையகத்தைத் திறந்துவைத்தார்.
03/05/2011
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TamilNet
Sri Lanka military occupying the Tamil country opened a new fort and an extensive military base on Friday at Koappaay in Jaffna, over the graves and memorials of the heroes who laid down their lives to the cause of the liberation of Eezham Tamils. The Chinese helped the occupying SL military to raze down the Maaveerar Thuyilumidam (the resting place of the heroes) and to build the fortress at that very premises for the occupying Army to tread on it. The resident of the king of Jaffna was at Koappaay during the times of the Kingdom of Jaffna. The Portuguese destroyed it in the 17th century. The US State Department coined the word 'reconciliation' but Colombo is writing the meaning for the word, commented a Tamil politician in Jaffna.
03/04/2011
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Zee News
Colombo: Sri Lankan Army said on Friday they are handing over a landmark hotel in Jaffna to its owners as part of the military's initiative to return private properties they occupied 15 years ago.
03/04/2011
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TamilNet
Efforts by the people of Valveddiththu’rai in Jaffna to re-install a statue for Mr. M G Ramachandran (MGR), the Tamil film icon since 1950s and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu was stopped by the Sri Lanka Army occupying the Tamil country. A statue of MGR that existed earlier at Valveddiththu’rai was desecrated and the arms were broken by the occupying military a few months back. Eezham Tamils, especially the coastal community people, are strong admirers of the films of MGR for well over six decades. MGR was born in Kandy in the island.
03/04/2011
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army.lk, Sri Lankan Army
Sri Lanka Army troops serving the Jaffna peninsula, in compliance with the government’s directions, released the last of the Army-held private buildings in the Jaffna town High Security Zone (HSZ) on Friday (4) after re-locating its 51 Division in Kopay, away from the famous Jaffna’s Subash Hotel in Victoria road.
03/03/2011
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Daily Mirror
The Attorney General today made an undertaking in Supreme Court to suspend the forced registration of residents in North by the military.